Surgical Techniques
Reflux Surgery May Not End Need for Medication
A 10-year follow-up study on 239 patients with complicated gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) who had participated in an earlier trial of medical versus surgical antireflux treatments has found that more than half of the surgery patients used antireflux medications regularly. More...29 May 2001
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